St Andrew's-by-the-Green
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| Former names | St. Andrew's Episcopal Church |
| General information | |
| Type | Church |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| Location | 33 Turnbull Street Merchant City, G1 5PR Glasgow |
| Coordinates | 55°51′14.81″N 4°14′39.44″W / 55.8541139°N 4.2442889°WCoordinates: 55°51′14.81″N 4°14′39.44″W / 55.8541139°N 4.2442889°W |
| Current tenants | Glasgow Association for Mental Health |
| Construction started | 1750 |
| Completed | 1751/2 |
| Renovated | 1988 |
| Cost | £1,250.12.9½d |
| Renovation cost | 1 billion dollers |
| Owner | Christian Action (Glasgow) Housing Trust |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Andrew Hunter |
| Renovating team | |
| Renovating firm | Miller Partnership |
St. Andrew's-by-the-Green is an 18th-century category-A-listed former church in Glasgow, Scotland, and the first Episcopal church built in the city. It is situated on the corner of Turnbull Street and Greendyke Street, overlooking Glasgow Green, on the edge of the City's East End.
Construction on the church began in 1750, and ended in 1751 or 1752, according to different sources. It is the oldest Episcopalian Church building erected in Scotland since the Reformation, and one of the oldest church buildings in Glasgow. The nearby St Andrew's in the Square was started in 1739 and completed in 1757, making St. Andrew's by the Green the fourth-oldest church building in Glasgow by date of starting construction, or third-oldest by date of completion, the earlier two being Glasgow Cathedral and the Trongate steeple. The design was produced by Andrew Hunter, himself a Presbyterian, and construction undertaken by masons Andrew Hunter and William Paul, and wright Thomas Thomson. Hunter was called before his Kirk Session and ex-communicated from the Church for producing the work. The entire cost of the building was £1,250.12.9½d, comprising £90.5s.0d. for purchase of the site, £420.6s.5d for stonework and £740.1s.4½d on the interior. Because of the church's situation by a low-lying part of Glasgow Green, it frequently fell victim to flooding before the parkland was eventually levelled to protect it from the river.
There was an historic split between the Hanoverian-supporting Church of Scotland and the Jacobite-supporting Scottish Episcopal Church, who believed Bonnie Prince Charlie to be the true monarch of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Following the failed Jacobite rising of 1745, many Episcopalian congregations resigned themselves to a Hanoverian monarchy and agreed to use the English Prayer Book and pray for the Hanoverians, becoming qualified chapels; St Andrew's Episcopal Church was one of these. Following the death of Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1798, almost all of the qualified chapels merged back into the old Episcopal Church, however one congregation in Glasgow, led by the Reverend Alexander Jamieson, continued independently until Jamieson's death in 1825. Jamieson is buried at St Andrew's-by-the-Green, his grave marked with a Celtic cross. His congregation subsequently built a chapel on Renfield Street, named St. Mary's, in 1826. The building was inspired by St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, but was demolished in the late nineteenth century, when the congregation built St. Mary's Cathedral on Great Western Road.
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